The 2023 PA Botany Symposium includes workshops on Dichanthelium, winter woody plants, bryophytes, wetland plants, invasive species & look-alikes, and plant fossils! Led by great folks including Norris Muth Mossman Peter Wilf pabotany.org/2023-symposium…

#Herbarium specimens reveal century-long trait shifts in poison #ivy due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions (New #AJB research by Molly Ng, Alyssa McCormick, Ryan Utz & Mason Heberling) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #ecophysiology Wiley Plant Science

Book your hotel rooms by September 18th to receive the meeting hotel discount! Discount code and hotel reservation link here: pabotany.org/2023-symposium/

Wow. A decade. Congrats to #AppsPlantSci!!!

Now that's interesting!

Among the many wonderful uses for herbarium specimens.

Sadly the proposed break-up of Kew’s collections is not alone. This reckless failure of duty for the welfare of biodiversity is impacting the Natural History Museum too. Fred Naggs, former NHM biodiversity and conservation officer states ‘[the museum] cannot function as…

New Herbarium Handbook …now in hand at Carnegie Museum of Natural History! Honored to contribute on the extended specimen concept with my #herbarium hero Bonnie Isaac (who studied herbarium techniques at Kew in 1988 using previous version!) @Nina_Davies7 Dr Timothy Utteridge Clare Drinkell @KewScience

Wonderful pairing!

My article "The Road to Herbaria" was just published in the Journal of Biosciences. It is available at rdcu.be/dtcEp. Thank you to Renee Borges at the Indian Institute for Science for inviting me to write it. IISc Bangalore #herbarium @YalePress

Well this one will sit with you

As Brad Pitt once said (I think, didn't he?).... the first rule of botany is... make and deposit a voucher, the second rule of botany, is... make AND DEPOSIT a voucher.

Tea Pain

Previously at CM herbarium Carnegie Museum of Natural History until transferred to NY!

My vote for meme of the day.

Well this is cool!

Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6NtQybhJ via Change.org

Happy that Ecological Society has also sent a letter to Duke University urging them to reconsider their decision to close herbarium. The collection matters to ecologists, too! Both for ecological research and providing educational opportunities for ecology students. esa.org/wp-content/upl…

Yay! Help support SHC support students in herbaria! Read more about Searrah's work in the Vasculum and about to submit to another publication soon. issuu.com/thevasculum/do…